Fun Food

 

 

Spagetti octopus, the missing piece, rainbow picinic, and dinner faces are the ways I make meals fun. I practice cooking and baking everyday. The best is when I try a new recipe with minimal ingredients and it tastes good. It gets even better when all three of my children will eat it.

My oldest child eats fruits and vegetables the most. However, the vegetables can't be mixed with other things. So casseroles and soups are a problem for him. He even picks the toppings off of pizza. He will eat most it just not together.

My middle child eats most everything. He will follow his "best big brother's" lead and refuse it at first, but once he tries it he will eat it all. He eats vegetables last, but he will usually eat them. He is a member of the clean plate club.

My youngest child, still baby but I'm supposed to say toddler, will eat or try most anything if she can feed herself. Some things I mix with applesauce or yogurt to get her to eat it. I also feed her things cold or room temperature when they would normally be warm. Hopefully, then she won't require her food to always be hot when I'm trying to get everything to the table, and she won't mind if her foods touch.

The spaghetti octopus started the meal fun. The boys and I skewered pieces of bratwurst with uncooked spaghetti. I cooked it all together, and a spaghetti octopus was born. We like it without the sauce because the bratwurst flavors everything.

The Missing Piece is a children's book where a pie shaped piece is trying to find the rest of the circle it belongs to. So for lunch I made quesadillas and made them into the missing piece.

We like to have picnics on the living room floor with cheese, crackers, fruits, and veggies. Arranging all the foods by color in a rainbow is an easy way to make sure they are eating the rainbow, which is what's recommended. Instead of asking if they ate a tomato, we asked if they ate something red.

The faces on their plates is something I do most often. It's easy to arrange the food in an entertaining way.

I want mealtime to be more entertaining without any electronics, so making food fun is something I can do. I mean who wouldn't want a hotdog waffle. Do you use ketchup or maple syrup?